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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:iirc committee-related poo poo Yeah it’s this. She’s a key vote on a bunch of committees. It’s gross what’s being done to her though
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I feel no sympathy for her as a person given she's white supremacist trash but it is gross what's being done to the american people
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Not like there was much of a choice last time, and now it came out how much of a piece of poo poo Kevin de Leon is
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May 14, 2023 17:39
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Oh what happened to that dude. Last thing I saw was him getting into a rumble on camera.
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Shageletic posted:Oh what happened to that dude. Last thing I saw was him getting into a rumble on camera. Ironically he’s pulling a Feinstein himself and is refusing to leave office until the end of his term while activists occasionally crash his events/presentations in protest.
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May 14, 2023 18:30
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Did DeLeon even bother to campaign statewide? I don't remember seeing any ads or flyers or signs.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Did DeLeon even bother to campaign statewide? I don't remember seeing any ads or flyers or signs. AFAICT the CA democratic machine basically told him to shut the gently caress up, stop campaigining, and they'd take care of him down the line, which resulted in his LA city council seat. Upon which he then did a racism and yeah is refusing to step down.
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DeLeon was trying enough at first that he won the primary but after that he dropped off the face of the earth and it's pretty clear that once he seemingly posed a genuine threat to Feinstein's re-election he was pulled into a backroom and told if he was actually going to try and unseat her the full might of the party was going to come down on his head and he'd find himself with gently caress all allies even if he did still pull out a win.
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luminalflux posted:AFAICT the CA democratic machine basically told him to shut the gently caress up, stop campaigining, and they'd take care of him down the line, which resulted in his LA city council seat. Upon which he then did a racism and yeah is refusing to step down. The CA Democratic party endorsed him over Feinstein in the general because she stopped paying attention and doing favors for the state party decades ago
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/dianne-feinstein-health-return-to-senate.htmlquote:It was about a minute later that I encountered Feinstein coming off an elevator, sitting in a wheelchair and flanked by staff. It’s been hard to find the senator since her return; she’s kept her movements mostly to the least-populated passageways and skipped luncheons and non-urgent committee hearings. The other reporter was from the LA Times and reported it separately; slightly different recollection of words, but agrees on the incoherence. https://twitter.com/boreskes/status/1658580390053924866
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i know they won't, but i hope everyone involved in this gets charged with elder abuse
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OMGVBFLOL posted:i know they won't, but i hope everyone involved in this gets charged with elder abuse It’s not abuse because senators aren’t human
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I think it's funny that she doesn't know where she is. The genuine concerns over elder abuse are also really funny, like she isn't getting exactly what she's always wanted. My grandma is also in mental decline, and I'm sad about that. The difference is that my grandma didn't authorize the Iraq War or commit innumerable other capital crimes.
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oh i have zero sympathy for her. i just also have zero sympathy for her staff and peers milking her for pay and power. robbing senile grandmas doesn't become okay just because its in the interests of your career to do so
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May 17, 2023 01:48
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What if I got a degree in robbing senile grandmas
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While it would be better if she could be sentenced by a people's tribunal, I suppose low-grade elder abuse is the closest thing to justice we can expect to be exacted upon Feinstein, so we might as well enjoy it.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:What if I got a degree in robbing senile grandmas so, finance?
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Have their even been any leaks from her office? Until I see any evidence at all that her staff are abusing her rather than pleading with her to step down and her going gently caress no, I'll assume she's got the same death grip on power that she's always had. Shoulda been tossed out of office by the voters 2 terms ago.
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her husband died in 2022 but has her 65 y/o daughter chimed in on any of this??
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Family Values posted:Have their even been any leaks from her office? Until I see any evidence at all that her staff are abusing her rather than pleading with her to step down and her going gently caress no, I'll assume she's got the same death grip on power that she's always had. Her staff ARE Senator Feinstein now, they're making the decisions, telling her what to sign and how to vote. She's obviously not capable of doing any of that herself and hasn't been for years. That's the abuse, taking advantage of her diminished capacity for their own benefit.
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Weekend at Bernie's
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There's no way her votes could be any better if she were lucid 
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Family Values posted:Have their even been any leaks from her office? Until I see any evidence at all that her staff are abusing her rather than pleading with her to step down and her going gently caress no, I'll assume she's got the same death grip on power that she's always had. Yes, cmon, do you really think she's some kind of puppetmaster controlling her staff? lmao  
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:I think it's funny that she doesn't know where she is. The genuine concerns over elder abuse are also really funny, like she isn't getting exactly what she's always wanted.
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Clinging to power until death claws it away worked great for RBG.
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First of May posted:Clinging to power until death claws it away worked great for RBG.  But unless there's a Republican win for California Governor in the near future... I think the situation is much different.
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Man Stabbed posted:What are you gonna do, stab me?
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fermun posted:Yes, cmon, do you really think she's some kind of puppetmaster controlling her staff? lmao You misunderstand me, I'm not suggesting she's a puppetmaster I'm suggesting she's refusing to say the magic words that would allow this farce to end.
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I think if we didn't have someone like Mitch McConnell that would do everything within his ability to hinder and wrest power from the opposing party, I think Feinstein would probably have less of an issue resigning. Losing that much seniority may risk a lot of the goals that people have in mind, so sticking to the status quo is probably what a lot of important people are thinking right now. So yeah, knock on wood, this is hardly an RBG moment, but the Democratic leadership may see value in her staying in her role rather than resigning.
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I'm not really familiar with all of the benefits of seniority beyond just reading a wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seniority_in_the_United_States_Senate but I do know that Mitch has been in the Senate for a long time and he certainly knows how to make full use of the bureaucracy to his advantage, with one example being that he prevented putting Merrick Garland up for a vote to be on the supreme court and instead putting in 3 republican supreme court judges instead
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It looks like letters have been sent out to 35 LASD deputies to be questioned about their involvement in the internal gangs under Villanueva. They have 14 days to report from when the letter was sent, which was the 12th. https://content.govdelivery.com/att...uty%20Gangs.pdf https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-county-inspector-general-question-deputies-gangs-sheriff-department/ https://witnessla.com/la-county-inspector-general-uses-cas-new-deputy-gang-laws-to-start-iding-lasds-gangsters-with-badges/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9OC-PWs_vw "In the letter, which was dated May 12, the Inspector General said that the sheriff's department possessed evidence that the two gangs were "exclusive, secretive" and the department could not provide them with a list detailing the membership of each group. This shortcoming prompted the office to conduct "witness interviews" to determine how many deputies are in the Banditos and Executioners. " Sweet
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Family Values posted:You misunderstand me, I'm not suggesting she's a puppetmaster I'm suggesting she's refusing to say the magic words that would allow this farce to end. She’s forgotten them. It should be a family member acting on her behalf and best interests now.
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El Mero Mero posted:She’s forgotten them. It should be a family member acting on her behalf and best interests now. We haven't (yet) become a hereditary aristocracy and her family doesn't inherit her office. The leadership should step in and remove her if she won't voluntarily resign. Her family has gently caress all say in it.
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Family Values posted:We haven't (yet) become a hereditary aristocracy and her family doesn't inherit her office. The leadership should step in and remove her if she won't voluntarily resign. Her family has gently caress all say in it. if you mean leadership as in the federal legislature as a whole, allowing that would seriously gently caress up our current federal model (which i wouldn't necessarily mind, but it's something that requires a rewrite of the constitution, so not trivial) if you mean state democrat machine leadership, uh, they're in no small part responsible for her still being in office
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As a Constitutional Originalist, I believe the state legislature should simply select a different person to send to DC
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CPColin posted:As a Constitutional Originalist, I believe the state legislature should simply select a different person to send to DC That’s right
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how long until we have a 40k emperor of man situation where the leader is just a corpse and the cult of divinators "interpreting his will" are the actual leaders
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She's one of the longest serving Democrats in the Senate, placement on committees, she's currently on five, including appropriations (budget), judiciary, rules, and intelligence (CIA etc) those are some pretty important ones Of note she was the chair of the intelligence committee for almost a decade, stepped down as chair in 2015/17 depending on how you count that I would imagine as a senator you wouldn't let go of the intelligence committee chair unless there was a serious problem, wouldn't surprise me if her mental facilities started to let go in the 15/17 period She's also still chair of the drug war committee, which, probably isn't a bad thing, that was a mistake to begin with and probably best they let her continue to chair it post humously
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